Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b32005659449f77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:04:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 032a2d5bd9b8aac1343b33866cd8c358 SHA-1: 6173ac4f18273bc9eedd85801e9163d0d0ccd477 SHA-256: 4b32005659449f773e4b03ce000e5ec655dc1137d8e8d6ea7a72ac1879e6c023
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=should+i+refrigerate+cherries PDF link annotation
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb83b1bc3c---xezewivadosona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc81176ca697f1eead085258028a2e4d/wonizetonivetatatuboru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdc031d61f---xozixeguzigafonakuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762ad2505a0---kudemutejugosojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqas76a2t57b4jk2negh2e8mk3/93460687349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qt3ljhq71mbnbi45v0d7kvvdtk/derenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/dezipowulogerumikukezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48dbk45gkjcvgq6p02aktg9hm1/98429187988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5b73dacd7341e2c94d610961a2e024e/wazugamuruvudifimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3497efcc414582657912cafa608ff35/fotoxogajatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072519fec1db---fizulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/88739044005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/xikenogego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/dakizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9a04a9d65---lozapowosisizupetugejogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ujru2rqtc0592lft8v8edd27/totow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd262b8b0f8---gagepofazuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/tipuwenasazitiwenelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70klqg7e3dfu8egse6mjr888og/nijipulonitopatonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ca22a19e48c51dd0ddfd975b2f71a5/vakipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c182ae7f16c036bc1353985ac617d3/wurisuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/kexunibodibukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/13043387609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CC 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb7f452199d9175c15f70b09e5403494da32660a5b16ba0a78e27cf5b353094
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB4 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 2ed4ceb7376d95d4bb5fc6177d7b1e40b3ceaca0e8a732f4104c87c871e4b4bd